Evidence for close-range hunting by last interglacial Neanderthals

Autoren

Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser
Elisabeth S Noack
Eduard Pop
Constantin Herbst
Johannes Pfleging
Jonas Buchli
Arne Jacob
Frieder Enzmann
Lutz Kindler
Radu Iovita
Martin Street
Wil Roebroeks

Autoren-URL

https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=fis-test-1&SrcAuth=WosAPI&KeyUT=WOS:000436927300016&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL

DOI

10.1038/s41559-018-0596-1

Externe Identifier

Clarivate Analytics Document Solution ID: GL2DY
PubMed Identifier: 29942012

ISSN

2397-334X

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7

Zeitschrift

NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Paginierung

1087 - +

Datum der Veröffentlichung

2018

Status

Published

Titel

Evidence for close-range hunting by last interglacial Neanderthals

Sub types

Article

Ausgabe der Zeitschrift

2

Datenquelle: Web of Science (Lite)

Autoren

Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser
Elisabeth S Noack
Eduard Pop
Constantin Herbst
Johannes Pfleging
Jonas Buchli
Arne Jacob
Frieder Enzmann
Lutz Kindler
Radu Iovita
Martin Street
Wil Roebroeks

DOI

10.1038/s41559-018-0596-1

eISSN

2397-334X

Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung

7

Zeitschrift

Nature Ecology & Evolution

Sprache

en

Online publication date

2018

Paginierung

1087 - 1092

Status

Published online

Herausgeber

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Herausgeber URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0596-1

Datum der Datenerfassung

2022

Titel

Evidence for close-range hunting by last interglacial Neanderthals

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2

Datenquelle: Crossref

Abstract

Animal resources have been part of hominin diets since around 2.5 million years ago, with sharp-edged stone tools facilitating access to carcasses. How exactly hominins acquired animal prey and how hunting strategies varied through time and space is far from clear. The oldest possible hunting weapons known from the archaeological record are 300,000 to 400,000-year-old sharpened wooden staves. These may have been used as throwing and/or close-range thrusting spears, but actual data on how such objects were used are lacking, as unambiguous lesions caused by such weapon-like objects are unknown for most of human prehistory. Here, we report perforations observed on two fallow deer skeletons from Neumark-Nord, Germany, retrieved during excavations of 120,000-year-old lake shore deposits with abundant traces of Neanderthal presence. Detailed studies of the perforations, including micro-computed tomography imaging and ballistic experiments, demonstrate that they resulted from the close-range use of thrusting spears. Such confrontational ways of hunting require close cooperation between participants, and over time may have shaped important aspects of hominin biology and behaviour.

Addresses

MONREPOS Archaeological Research Center and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Leibniz-Research Institute for Archaeology, Neuwied, Germany. gaudzinski@rgzm.de.

Autoren

Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser
Elisabeth S Noack
Eduard Pop
Constantin Herbst
Johannes Pfleging
Jonas Buchli
Arne Jacob
Frieder Enzmann
Lutz Kindler
Radu Iovita
Martin Street
Wil Roebroeks

DOI

10.1038/s41559-018-0596-1

eISSN

2397-334X

Externe Identifier

PubMed Identifier: 29942012

Open access

false

ISSN

2397-334X

Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung

7

Zeitschrift

Nature ecology & evolution

Schlüsselwörter

Animals
Diet
Archaeology
Germany
Tool Use Behavior
Weapons
Biological Evolution
Neanderthals

Sprache

eng

Medium

Print-Electronic

Online publication date

2018

Paginierung

1087 - 1092

Datum der Veröffentlichung

2018

Status

Published

Datum der Datenerfassung

2018

Titel

Evidence for close-range hunting by last interglacial Neanderthals.

Sub types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal Article

Ausgabe der Zeitschrift

2

Datenquelle: Europe PubMed Central

Abstract

Animal resources have been part of hominin diets since around 2.5 million years ago, with sharp-edged stone tools facilitating access to carcasses. How exactly hominins acquired animal prey and how hunting strategies varied through time and space is far from clear. The oldest possible hunting weapons known from the archaeological record are 300,000 to 400,000-year-old sharpened wooden staves. These may have been used as throwing and/or close-range thrusting spears, but actual data on how such objects were used are lacking, as unambiguous lesions caused by such weapon-like objects are unknown for most of human prehistory. Here, we report perforations observed on two fallow deer skeletons from Neumark-Nord, Germany, retrieved during excavations of 120,000-year-old lake shore deposits with abundant traces of Neanderthal presence. Detailed studies of the perforations, including micro-computed tomography imaging and ballistic experiments, demonstrate that they resulted from the close-range use of thrusting spears. Such confrontational ways of hunting require close cooperation between participants, and over time may have shaped important aspects of hominin biology and behaviour.

Date of acceptance

2018

Autoren

Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser
Elisabeth S Noack
Eduard Pop
Constantin Herbst
Johannes Pfleging
Jonas Buchli
Arne Jacob
Frieder Enzmann
Lutz Kindler
Radu Iovita
Martin Street
Wil Roebroeks

Autoren-URL

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29942012

DOI

10.1038/s41559-018-0596-1

eISSN

2397-334X

Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung

7

Zeitschrift

Nat Ecol Evol

Schlüsselwörter

Animals
Archaeology
Biological Evolution
Diet
Germany
Neanderthals
Tool Use Behavior
Weapons

Sprache

eng

Country

England

Paginierung

1087 - 1092

PII

10.1038/s41559-018-0596-1

Datum der Veröffentlichung

2018

Status

Published

Datum, an dem der Datensatz öffentlich gemacht wurde

2019

Titel

Evidence for close-range hunting by last interglacial Neanderthals.

Sub types

Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Ausgabe der Zeitschrift

2

Datenquelle: PubMed

Evidence for close-range hunting by last interglacial Neanderthals

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